Lost in the Amazon: what happened to my friend?
When Dom Phillips goes missing while reporting in the Amazon, fellow journalist Tom Phillips joins the search both to report on the story and find his friend.
British journalists Dom and Tom Phillips were friends who shared a surname and a passion for Brazil, a place where they both worked and called home. In June 2022 Dom was on a reporting trip in the Amazon, a place he loved, for a book he was working on. He was with indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. They were investigating illegal activity in the region. And then Tom got a call to say they had gone missing. He immediately joined the search, both to report on the story and find his friend. Tom was there when, based on pure intuition, the indigenous-led search team made a grim discovery, it became clear that Dom and Bruno had been killed. In response to the tragedy Tom and Dom's family and colleagues worked together to complete Dom's book 鈥� How to save the Amazon.
Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Producer: Rachel Oakes
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(Photo: Dom Phillips. Credit: Jonathan Watts, The Guardian)
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